Whoa, it seems to have been like 2,5 years since I last wrote an entry in this blog. No matter, it's time to move forward and utilize the same, slightly revamped blog to report my endeavours in Asia. As it happens, I was accepted for a Spring semester study exchange period at the University of Hyderabad, India. While being quite a different environment than the one I studied in at the United States, it has nevertheless proved to be quite a manageable experience, and not once yet have I felt the hopelessness and feeling of alienation that comes with a profound culture shock.
Since the previous posts, I have graduated as a Bachelor of Arts, and moved on to pursue a dual Master's, in Development and International Co-operation (majoring in education) and in English. Due to some unexpected bureucratic mishap, my major was listed as sociology in my study exchange application. In effect, this means that I will be mostly studying sociology during this semester.
During this semester, I am studying the following four courses:
SL452 Research Methods II
SL526 Marxism and Capitalism
SL528 Modernity and Modernization
EC453 Political Economy of Development
The way bilateral exchange students are accepted into University of Hyderabad basically only entitles them to study at a single department. As you can see, I was able to sneak an Economics course into my curriculum, but for that I had to go all the way up to the department head for a permission.
The courses are 4 credits each, but these are not to be confused with ECTS which are used in Finland. They are roughly equivalent to American college credits, which means that the courses should yield 6-7 ECTS each, when transferred to my Finnish transcript.
Sorry for boring you with all the study-related blabber right away, I promise to do better and actually move on to more interesting issues in the following posts!
P.S. Don't worry people, photographic content will also follow in the future posts!
